SUSPENDED Chief Constable David Crompton should be told to step down or retire, a panel of councillors has ruled.

The county police and crime panel met to decide the fate of Mr Crompton, who was placed on suspension in April, and have now recommended to police and crime commissioner Dr Alan Billings that his should leave his post permanently.

Members of a policing scrutiny panel have called on South Yorkshire’s embattled chief constable David Crompton to be dismissed because of his “catastrophic error of judgement” after the verdict in the new Hillsborough disaster inquests.

The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel has recommended that police commissioner Dr Alan Billings should call for the retirement or resignation of Mr Crompton, who was suspended in April.

Bearing in mind that Mr Crompton was not in office at the time of Hillsborough, perhaps those councillors who were in office when CSE was happening and deemed ‘Not fit for purpose’
will set him an example?